Here's my photos from our third day in Kyoto.
The main thing here is the Fushimi Inari shrine, which is famous for having so. many. orange. shrine. gates (aka torii in Japanese). Inari is a god of fertility, rice, agriculture, and industry who has been worshipped at this mountain (Mt. Inari) since at least 711 AD and is frequently associated with foxes, hence the large number of fox statues at this shrine.
The beginning is as packed with tourists as the Golden Temple, but the inner shrine itself is up Mt. Inari which is a legitimate mountain hike (something like 50+ flights of stairs), and the tourists definitely thin out as you get higher and higher. Isaac and I were committed to hiking the whole thing, which means I actually got some decent photos of the walls of gates without big groups of tourists.
After that hike (which turned out to be day #2 of 3 mountain hiking, after the surprise mountain hike with Yuri the day before and the hike to Mt. Takao the next day), I was more in a mood to just go to Kyoto Station and hang out for a couple hours before we all gathered back together for our train back to Tokyo.
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